Matteo Montani's 'The Glow and the Glare' at Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea

Matteo Montani returns to Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea in Milan with 'The Glow and the Glare', curated by Alberto Zanchetta. The exhibition features paintings where Byzantine-style gold liquefies on canvas, mingling with bronze, blue, azure, and sometimes green. These contrasting colors create a synesthetic effect reminiscent of light-filled clouds that shine even in darkness. Light is the central subject, with vibrant color serving it through multiple shades. The painting investigates and speaks of itself without subordination to the represented subject; color becomes both object and subject, archetype and evolution of an art fixed on canvas yet pushing toward a continually shifting drift, as if golden glimmers migrate in search of a metaphysical place.